Beer-pipe cleaner.



No. 705,247. v Pa tented July 22, 1902.

c. B. Jonusun.

BEER PIPE CLEANER. (Applicgtion filed May 1, 1902.)

UNITED STATES P TENT OFFICE.

CLARENCE B. JOHNSON, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO DAVID 'R. OREEOY, JR, OF NORFOLK, VIRGINIA.

BEER-PIPE CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 705,247, dated July 22, 1902. Application filed May 1, 1902- Serial No. 105,428. (No l nodal.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLARENCE B. J'oHNsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Norfolk, in the county of Norfolk and Stateof Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Beer-Pipe Cleaners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an apparatus or machine for cleaning beer-pipes, the apparatus involving a hot-water, steam, and chemical cleaner when the latter is desired.

The object of the invention is to produce an apparatus which is easily portable and which may be readily connected with any beer cooling or circulating pipe for the application of steam; or hot water, or both, and whereby also a chemical substance may be forced into the pipe; and the invention consists in certain constructions and combination'sof mechanism substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the apparatus ready for connection to abeer-pipe. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section on aplane at right angles to Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a broken detail view of means for coupling the parts ofthe apparatus together.

The numeral 1 indicates a gasolene-tank of frusto-conical form, having a filling-opening 2, which may be tightly closed, and an air-injector pipe 3, by which air may be forced into the tank, as by a hand-pump 4. Oarbureted vapor is forced: by the air-pressure in tank 1 up the pipe 5, which is controlled by cock 6.

The vapor passes to humor 7, under the steamboiler, which burneris of-rusual form and is covered by a perforated" casing 8. Vapor is ignited in the chamber formed by casing 8 and heatsthe boilerilO.

The tank 1 has uprights 11, preferably three innumber, and these uprights areprovided with a ring 12, above which the boiler is supported. Hooks or brackets 13, connected. to

. uprights 11, support the bottom of the boiler 10. The ring 12 has projectingarms 14,011

which yokes 15 are held. These yokes 15 carry hooks 16,which hooks may hook over the pipes projecting from the sides and near the bottom of the boiler. Thus the boiler and its heat the heater can be transported with the boiler,

or they may be disconnected and used separately. l

The boiler 10 has a pipe 20 projecting at one side, and by means of a pump 21 water may be forced into the boiler near the bottom. In the same way an alkaline or other chemical solution may be forced into the boiler,

and steam will be developed therefrom by the heatfof the burner 7. The front of the boiler (which boiler usually contains two to six gallons) hasa vertical tube 22 connected to the outside, the upper part of tube 22'being connected to the boiler by pipe 23, above the water-line of the boiler, and the lower end of tube 22 being connected by pipe 24, entering the boiler below the water-line. g

Awater-gage 25 maybe connected,as shown, to the upright tube 22 or may be'otherwise connected to the boiler.

The lower pipe24t hasa cock 26, to which a piece of fiexible hose may be connected,'as is usual, to make hot-water connection from the boiler to the beer-pipe.

A cook 27 affords means for co'nnecti'ng the hose to the steam-,boilerabove the water-line.

A steam-gage 28 isconnected to the boiler in usual manner, and a safety-valve 29 permits the escape of steam when a pressure above that desired is developed.

To the same pipe 30 which connects to the safety-valve a cook 31 is connected, this cook 31 having a larger nozzlethan the nozzle to cook 27 for purpose tobe stated.

A handle 32, attached toths body of the cook 30 and to the safety-valve pipe, affords a convenient means for lifting and carrying the steam boiler or the boiler and heater, should the last be desired.

The device is quite portable, the two-gallon 0 size of boiler. and all its attachments being easily carried by a boy P i The apparatus as usually constructed is easily portable by hand. The hand-grasp 32 is-so connected that the boiler will be lifted thereby, and when the tank and burner are veniently carried from room to room and may even be carried along a street, exceptduring high winds.

In operation the device is used as follows: The boiler is charged with water or an alkaline or other solution, the boiler preferably being filled about two-thirds full, as indicated by the water-gage. Then the burner is ignited and the desired steam-pressure is developed, from fifteen to thirty pounds pressure per square inch being usually employed. The burner can easily be controlled by the cock 6, so as to maintain the desired pressure. Vhen the water is hot in the boiler, connection is made from cook 26 to the beer-coil by a steam-hose or by other suitable connection, and the coil is filled with hot Water from the boiler. When the beer coil or pipe is full of hot water or a hot alkaline solution, if such is used in the boiler, the cook 26 is closed and the hose 40, connected to the beer-coil, is also connected to the steam-cock 27. Steam is then admitted to the coil and, if necessary, the steam pressure may be raised. This will cause the hot water in the coil to be raised to a boiling temperature, especially if a very slight escape be permitted from the other end of the coil. A very few minutes of this treatment by boiling water or a boiling chemical solution eifectively removes all impurities from the inside of the coil, and the Water and impurities may be blown out by steam-pressure.

When it is inconvenient to get the boiler close to the beer-coil, a larger hose may be used, which can be connected to cock '31. This will permit a greater volume of steam to be carried through the hose, thus securing sufiicient heat for the purpose under all ordinary conditions.

What I claim is- 1. In a cleaner for beer-coils, the combination with an upright steam-boiler, of a fueltank having a burner connected thereto and located beneath the boiler, uprights connect ed to the fuel-tank and having brackets on which the boiler rests, a ring on the uprights having projecting arms, and projections on the boiler removably coupled to said arms on the ring.

2. In a beer-pipe cleaner, the combination of the upright steam-boiler, the heater removably connected thereto, a cock forming a hot- Water connection for a flexible hose and communicating with the boiler below the waterline, a similar cock forming steam connection above the Water-line, and a second cock of larger size forming a second steam connection.

In testimony whereof I aifix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CLARENCE B. JOHNSON.

Witnesses:

HARRY K. WOLOOTT, GILMER T. ELLIOTT. 

